I never dreamed in a million years that the recipe for Oatmeal Bar Cookies would be exactly as the drop cookie. That’s why I haven’t made them thinking that the texture would be more chewy when all that dough was crammed into one pan. But, I was wrong and I have wasted so much time doling out oatmeal drop cookies. Bar cookies are so much easier to bake especially when you are dealing with about 5 dozen. That was your good news. The bad news is you have to wait for them to cool before cutting them unless of course you’re just going to eat them out of the pan with a spoon. And that would be perfectly acceptable!

I lined my pan with parchment paper with a few inches hanging over the sides. This makes it easy to lift the cookies out of the pan and place them on a cutting board to cut. Now about my pan – it is a Wilton 9 x 13 inch pan that’s a little dark so I really have to be careful when baking. Either I drop the temperature by 25 degrees or cut the cooking time.

Now what about some Oatmeal Cookies that will get you in and out of the kitchen in a flash? I love this recipe and hope that you enjoy it, too.